Google , friend or foe

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#1 jram

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Posted 03 March 2006 - 11:13 AM

This is dangerous, found it on BBR..your belarc profile with keys

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#2 cybormoron Re: Google , friend or foe

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Posted 03 March 2006 - 12:51 PM

wow. how does google get this stuff? i know belarc generates a htm file that opens in your browser but it's supposed to be a local file. how would google find this unless you uploaded this file to the web or google searches your computer. google may not do evil but they sure open the door for the devil. they're starting to scare me.

hey google, here's mine. (i hope i blanked the important info)

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#3 jram Re: Google , friend or foe

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Posted 03 March 2006 - 12:54 PM

I would guess google desktop search.. :fat_face_surprised:

The bad thing is if a person puts in the key number if it's a Microsoft product, it passes the genuine microsoft test

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Posted 03 March 2006 - 01:12 PM

ever check out the googledorks or googlehacks at http://johnny.ihackstuff.com/?

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#5 jram Re: Google , friend or foe

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Posted 03 March 2006 - 01:18 PM

Google is everywhere, kind of scary..

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Posted 03 March 2006 - 01:20 PM

Cybor, googling yourself will make you go blind. Or that is what I've been told.

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Posted 03 March 2006 - 04:49 PM

Holy Crap! This is definitly scarey... :fat_face_no:

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Posted 03 March 2006 - 05:36 PM

That looks as if that may be something someone has posted on the www and not something Goggle got from your computer. May be something someone posted on a site and asked someone to look at, or.........??

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#9 jram Re: Google , friend or foe

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Posted 03 March 2006 - 06:50 PM

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That looks as if that may be something someone has posted on the www and not something Goggle got from your computer.

There would be no reason for that really, I think it google desktop search.. I saw this before with peoples private info and folders , people were showing these folders on BBR.

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Posted 04 March 2006 - 03:33 AM

FULL ARTICLE HERE

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Posted 04 March 2006 - 08:20 AM

I never trusted google except to search as it is in My Favorites when I need to use it. I wouldn't take the download version.... Money is the name of the game and these popular D/L all have at least tracking cookies.
Good read Tonto.
P.S. Has it warmed up any outside your igloo?

JR., all the info refers to Windows XP Professional, but I subspect XP home could get it too. I just don't trust any of the big guys anymore. Like Enron in reverse...

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#12 JohnT Re: Google , friend or foe

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Posted 05 March 2006 - 12:23 AM

I have never used the desktop version either. I like it for searching but I even dropped the free Google mail some time back.

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Posted 05 March 2006 - 07:19 AM

Yea I had to drop it myself. As I forgot the password and they wanted my life history to allow me to re-do the password and Yahoo just came out with 250 MB of free e-mail. SO I told them where to put the cattle prod... One has to beware of free things as well as the popular items one has to buy because if they involve people then you can bet on at least tracking cookies if not keyloggers or worst.
The internet sure took a wide turn just when it was getting real useful for the general public a few years or less ago!
Simple to understand there are far to many users and where there are large sums of people you have greed. The same for $ where there are large sums of it....
Man I need a new keyboard.....

Edited by mlurp, 06 March 2006 - 04:05 AM.

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Posted 05 March 2006 - 12:32 PM

.....google is wonderful.....to be used only as a search engine....

I have not partaken of any of its goodies that have been offered...

All goodies come with a price...BEWARE...... :Devil:

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Posted 05 March 2006 - 02:03 PM

I don't need or use the desktop search either. But I do like it as a search engine. I experiment with other search engines but Google seems to work better for me.

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Posted 05 March 2006 - 02:15 PM

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I don't need or use the desktop search either. But I do like it as a search engine.

Ditto, just the search engine..

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Posted 05 March 2006 - 03:06 PM

Same here. Search engine only.

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Posted 05 March 2006 - 08:50 PM

I use only the search engine--Firefox extension.

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Posted 06 March 2006 - 04:07 AM

WOW a record or something... So many people and all agree! Great...... and a good topic to boot.

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Posted 06 March 2006 - 07:13 AM

something else that everyone might want to check is your personalized search history. i think it was enabled by default when it came out and unless you have signed out of it, it is recording everything you search for in your account. i think this history may be available to the public somehow if i recall what i read about it correctly. if you have a gmail account you better check what is enabled in your account settings. :fat_face_surprised: